Plans In Place For Massive $50 Million Cross-Code Rugby Match

by sportlocker ·
Published November 9, 2017
· Updated November 9, 2017

Battle of the codes.

The All Blacks could face the Kangaroos in a massive cross-code, clash of the world champions encounter that could generate a whopping A$50 million.

Sydney’s Daily Telegraph is reporting that talks have taken place for union’s top international side to take on league’s top international side in Tokyo, Japan with each team set to receive an unprecedented $10 million or almost $600,000 per player.

The Telegraph says the All Blacks and Australian Rugby League have both shown interest in the concept – claiming and that the match could take place “two to four weeks” after the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.